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BIG RAILROAD GoBBLE.
The Entire Baltimore 6 Ohio System
Changes Hands,

New YORK, March 9.-The Times
authoritatively announces that the con-
troll Of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
has passed into the hands of Alfred
Sully, of New York. BY the acuuire-
ment of the Baltimore & Ohio, Mr.. Sui
ly and his friends become controllers of
probably the most extensive railway
system in the world. 1t includes the
Central railroad OF New Jersey, the
Philadelphia and Reading system, the
Richmond terminal and Richmond and
Danville properties, the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia lines, and now,
last of all, the Baltimore & Ohio. OF
all these properties there is to be made
one great trunk line, with 10000 miles
of track. The Baltimore & Ohio can
now secure an entrance to New York
over the Jersey Central and Reading.
With the control of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad company goes also the
control of the Baltimore & Ohio tele-
graph company. The Indications are
that Robert Garrett will not sever his
connection with the company and that
he may even continue in its presidency.
There are some of the strongest and
most influential money interests in
this country and Europe with Mr.. Sui
ly In his new venture or about to be-
come affiliated with him.
1t is said, on the authority of one OF
Mr.. Goulds intimates, that as yet Mr..
Gould has not been admitted to any
share in the deal, and that if there is to
be a settlement of the telegraph wal
the terms of that settlement have vel
to be arranged. Mr.. Gould has for
some days been in communication with
a representative of Mr.. Sully, and ex-
poets to see him personally to-day.
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sHERlFFs SALE,
Henry HoltermAu, as County Treasurer Of Henry
county, Ohio,

heutg houNfulAht ~ NNuhtg AHeAHuttE ol htnE.
county, Ohio,
".
Robert X. Scott ct al.
Order Of sale from Heury County Court Of Cor
mon Pleas.
DY virtue Of an order of sale issued from the
Dabove named court and to me directed as Sheriff
of Henry county, will offer at public sale At the
north door Of the court house in Napoleon, o., on
Saturday, March 26, 1887,
At the hour OF O'Clock p NJ. Of said day. the fol-
lowing described real estate, situated In Henry CO..
Ohio, to-wit:
First cause Of acti On, subdivision one Of lot
number ninetythree (93l, in the original plat OF the
town ofNapoleon, In Henry county, Ohio, described
ae follows to-wft: Commencing at the th-east
corner Of lot ninety-three (9J) thence west along
Washington street twenty feet and ten inches,
thence north parallel with Monroe street eighty
feet thence east parallel with Washington street
Monroe street eighty feet TO the place OF beginning
Second cause OF action, sub division two Of lot
number nnetythree 1881 in the original plat of the
town OF Napoleon, Henry county, Ohio, described
as commencing at point twenty feet and ten inch
west of the southeast corner OF said lot number
ninety.three (93) running thence west along Wash
ington street twenty feet and ten inches, thence
north parallel with Monroe street eighty feet thence
east parallel with Washington street twenty feet
aud ten inches, thence south parallel with Monroe
street eighty feet TO the place OF beginning
Third cause of action, sub. division four, OF lot
number ninetythrte 1857 In the original plat Of the
town Of Napoleon, Henry county, Ohio, and de
scribed as commencing Monroe street eighty feet
north Of the southeast corner of said lot No. 80,
runuir thence west parallel with Washington street
eighty Two 1927 feet and six (6) uchcs, thence north
parallel with Monroe street twentyOne (2ll feet and
three (3 inches, thence east aud parallel with Wash
ington street eghytwo 1927 feet ard six (6) inch
cs to Monroe street, thence south along Monroe
street t2 feet and three 3 inches to the
place ofbeginning.
Lot appraised at $50; lot 2appraised at $40; lot
4 appraised at $50; total appraismeut S11O.
Terms Of sale, cash.
EFT. BARNES,
Sheriff of Henry county, Ohio,
R. W. Cahil, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, Feb. 16, 1881. SIS OF
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The Largest Farm in the World.

- Ist, Loaiz RePublleAn.l
In the extreme southwest corner of
Louisiana lies the largest producing
farm in the world. II runs 100 miles
North and South and-miles East and
West, and is owned and operated bv
syndicate of Northern capitalists.
Their general manager, ]. b. Watkins,
gives an interesting account Of this
gigantic plantation which throws the
great Dalrymple farm in Dakota into
the shade completely.
1.-THE 100000 acres of our tract. -
Mr.. Watkins said, twas purchased in
1888 from the State of Louisiana and
from the United States Government.
AT that time it was a vast grazing land
for the cattle of the few dealers i'm the
neighborhood. When / took possess
sion found over 10000 head of half
wild horses and cattle. Ny work was
to divide the immense tract into con-
venient pastures, establishing stations
or ranches every six miles. The fenc-
ing alone cost in the neighborhood of
$4,000. The land l found to be best
adapted to rice, sugar, corn and cotton.
All our cultivating, ditching, ETC., is
done by steam power. We take tract,
say half mile wide for instance, and
place an engine on each side. The en-
gines are portable and operate a cable
attached to four I'lOws, and under this
arrangement we are able to plow 80
acres a day with only the labor of
three men. Our narrowing, planting
and other cultivation is done in a like
manner; In fact, there is not a single
draught horse on the entire place. We
have, of course, horses for the herders
of cattle, of which we now have 10000
head. The Southern Pacific Railroad
runs for 36 miles through our farm.
We have three steamboats, operating
on the waters ofour own estate, upon
which there are 300 miles of navigable
waters. We have an ice house, bank,
a ship-yard and a rice mill"
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THE SEA DEVIL.
Not a Fabled Monster, But a Yankee
Continuance to Blow John Bull
Ont of the Water.

WASHINGTON, March 6.-The local
papers to-day give elaborate descrip-
tions of the invention by Mr.. Sid H.
Nealy, a young journalist of Washing
ton, of a "sea DEVIL" or submarine tor
pedo, capable of carrying a charge of
nearly a thousand pounds of dynamite.
II is to be sent after an enemy's ship
from either shore or shipboard, and its
inventor asserts that no ship, however
fast, can run away from it even in q
slow chase. The body of the torpedo,
carrying the charge, revolves with tre-
mendOus rapidity, the shaft i'm the rear
being held motionless, first by a float to
which the torpedo is attached, and
afterward by four blades that stick out
from the shaft like so many wings of'a
churn-paddle. Reaching the guards of
a ship, the torpedo ducks its head,
dives fourteen feet into the water,
raises its head and darts against the
ships hull. It is steered until it
reaches the ship by electric wires, but
the most accurate shots can be made
with it at distance of three-quarters
of a mile. Mr.. Nealy will soon give an
exhibition of his sea devil.
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Sheriff's Sale.
Clara Z. Bales,


Isaac W. Hershberger.
Vend exponas from Henry county Courtof Com
mon Pleas.
By virtue Of vendi exponasissued from the
above named Court. and to directed Sheriff Of
Henry county, will offer at public sale at the North
Saturday, March 26, 1887,
at the hour of o'clock, p. m of said day, the fol-
lowing described real situated in Henry
ty, Ohio, to-wit: . ...-
The east half (1) of the north quarter (4l OF
the northwest quarter () of section fifteen (15),
town five 5 north of range (7) east in Henry
county, Ohio, containing 20 Of land more less
Appraised at 5000
Terms ofsale, cash. ....-----..
E. T. BARNES,
Sheriff Of Henry county, Ohio.
s.. Hague, attorney for plaintiff. ,--.
Napoleon, Ohio, Feb. 90, 1887. $S 40
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ROAD NOTICE.

NJ Office is hereby given that petition will be
IN presented to the Commissioners of Henry
county, at their next session, March 7th A. d. 1887
praying Tor the location of county road the fol-
eighty rods west Of the south east corner of section
number 70, Pleasant township, Henry county, Ohio,
thence running about 100 rods orunti itinter-
sects on road on said above mentioned line about
so rods west of the east line of section number 29
total distance Of about 100 rods, and there to
terminate. All in town north, range east. Henry
county, Ohio, and on land or real estate owned by
John Wolf and to constitute part of the so called
Napoleon free turnpike. JOHN WOLF,
Principal petitioner.
Feb. 1st, 1887. I'd
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simmons Liver Regulator

is what the name indicates a 'Regula-
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Liver. Is your Liver out of order?
Then is your whole system deranged,
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unrefreshing. Simmons Liver Regula-
tor restores the healthy action of the
Liver. See that you get the Genuine,
prepared by J. Fl Zeilin C Co.
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sHERIFT's SALE.
Elizabeth D. Treat,

Elizabeth D. Treat,
VS.
Hesokiah Roach ct al. - ...
Order of Sale from Henry County Court ofCommon
Pleas
BY virtue OF an Order of Sale issued from the
above named Court and to me directed as Sheriff of
Henry County, / will offer at Public Sale at the
North door of the Court House, in Napoleon,
Ohio, on
Saturday, April End, 1887,
at the hour of O'Clock p. M. of said day. the fol-
lowing described Real Estate, situated In Henry
County, Ohio, to-wit: -.. .'
The north part of lot No. one Q), section twenty
Ave (25), in township six (6) north of range eight
(8) east containing sixty-four GA acres The said
north part containing forty (i0) Of land. The
said north part of said lot hereby conveyed to be
bounded on the south by line running east and
west parallel with the section line of said section
running east and west at such part Of said lot No.
one III will divide said lot with said forty (40)
acres lying the north Of said line and the balance
of saido being twentyfour (2i] acres the SOUTH
said line being forty (40) of land, deed from
james Roach, Sr. to Henry Roach, aud recorded in
Henry county record of deeds, vol. pages 325 and
1926.
Appraised at 500.
Terms Of Sale Cash.
E. T. BARNES,
Sheriff Of Henry county, Ohio.
P. C. Beard, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, March lst. 1887. $l2 90
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

Henry Il Holterman, as County Treasurer of Henry
... County, Ohio,
Va,
f.r ..E Sherman j. Hedges. Hrf .
Order of sale from Henry County Court OF Common
Pleas. '
DY virtue Of an order Of sale issued from the
Dabove named court and to me directed IS Sheriff
of Henry county, will offer at public sale ct the
north door of the Court House, In Napoleon, Ohio,
on
Saturday, March 26th, 1887,
at the hour of O'clock p. M. Of said day the fol-
lowing described real estate situated In Henry
ty, Ohio, towit: - -. T., .-
Lot number sixty-nine (69) in the original plat Of
the town of Deshler, Henry county, Ohio.
%Appraised at $3.50 -.
Terms Of sale, cash.
EFT BARNES,
Sheriff of Henry county, Ohio.
R. W Cahill, attorney for plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, Feb. g. 1887. So 10
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IN pursuance of an order OF the Probate Court of
i Henry county, Ohio, will offer fer sale at pub
lie auction, on
Saturday, the 10th day of March, 1887,
at 2 clock p M, at the north door of the Court
House, in Napoleon, Henry county, Ohio, the fol-
lowing described real estate situated In said county
of Henry, and State of Ohio, to-wit:
The south half Of the north east quarter, less
one ~ acre heretofore decided to Samuel Dawson,
containing seventy.nine (79) acres, and the north
east corner Of the northeast quarter Of the south
west quarter, containing ten (t0 acres, of section
nine (9 In township Ave (5), north of range six (6)
east, containing In ALL cighty-nine 1897 acres.
Appraised at S5,3l0.
Terms of sale: one-third cash In hand one-third
In one year, and one-third in two years fro the day
of sale, with interest; the deferred payments to be
secured by mortgage upon the premises sold.
GEORGE DAUM,
Administrator of the estate Of Hugh Gilson dec d..
Stephenson d Knupp, Attorneys.
February 7th, iSsT,1feblO4t $7oO
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Bucklen'sAr Arnica salye .

The bestsalve in the world forcuts.
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required.
1t isguaranteed to give satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box, For saleby d. Humphrey. 4
apl 2S-1y
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Notice of appointment.

Estate of Harmon Tietje, deceased.
NH E undersigned has been appointed and auali-
L fed as Administrator of the estate Of Harmon
Tetje, late of Henry county, Ohio, deceased.
Dated this 9th day of December A. d. 1886.
HENRY TIETJE,
Administrator Of Harmon Tietje, decd.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-03-17

But perhaps the most interesting features
are among the unillustrated articles which
include the last of "the Longfellow papers,"
"Longfellow and the Children" by Rev.
Samuel Longfellow; delightful botanical
paper by Grant Allen, entitled ga New Eng
Mary Densil, called "Nan's Bambino:' a
good story by Penn Shirley, "a Boys Law
suit;" also sketch of Western schoolgirl
editor. ga Colorado Wasp There are still
other interesting features: "bits Of talk" by
Rose Kingsley, Margaret Sidney and Annie
Sawyer Downs, fascinating piece of bio
graphical writing by Mrs. Bolton about
f'Pansy" (Mrs. q. r. Alden), with portrait,
some carpentry for boys, some "Search-
Questions" for historical students, "Tan-
giles" for the ingenious, and other poems and
other pictures and other stories.
Only $40 year. D. Lothrop & Co.,
Publishers, Boston. -t<
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SAMANTHA AT SARATOGA"

Miss Marietta Holly, the distinguished
humorous author known as "Josiah Aliens
Wife," has just finished her new book
Samantha at Saratoga" in the inimitable
mirth- provoking style of Samantha at the
Centennial, !" "Betsey Bobbitt," etc., and has
sold the MSS. for good round sum to
Messrs. Hubbard Bros, of Philadelphia, who
are employing the best humorous artists in
the country to illustrate it, and propose
bringing it out this Spring at popular price
by subscription. Miss Holly spent all last
season amid the whirl of fashion at Saratoga,
and takes off its follies, fiirtations, pug dogs,
low neck dressing, etc., etc., in style that
is overfiowing with richest humor, and must
create a great sensation.
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Probate Notice,

NOTICE IL hereby given, that W. r. Bowers, as
~ Administrator de.60nis-non, of the estate of
VIM. A. Watson, decd. has filed a Anal account of
his Administration. which will be for hearing and
settlement March 18th, 1887.
D. NE%XISoN, Probate Judge.
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

Mary oberiniller,
vs..
John q Huston ct al
Order Of sale from Henry County Court of Common
Pleas.
By virtue of order of sale issued from the above
named Court and to me directed as Sheriff Of Henry
county will offer at public sale at the North door
Of the Court house, in Napoleon, Ohio, on
Saturday, April 2, 1887,
at the hour Of 20 clock p m of said day, the fol-
lowing described real estate, situated in Henry
county, Ohio, to-wit:
The north half(Is) of the northeast quarter (4),
Isl east, containing so acres Of land more OF less in
said Henry county, Ohio.
Appraised $1,000
Terms of sale cash.
EFT. BARNES,
Sheriff of Henry county, Ohio.
Florence Cronise, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, Feb. %, 1887. So 10
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DR.. William A Hammond, than whom
there is no better authority, will open the
April Popular Science Monthly with an able
article entitled "Brain-Forcing in Child
hood" The paper gives vivid picture of
the evils of the book k-cramming process, now
so common in both public and private
schools, and also contains strong plea for
fewer studies, more direct contacts with
Nature, and less of the intervention of books.
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Note On Run ming Of Trains.
Train leaving Columbus at AIS p. m. (north
bound) runs daily, and carries through sleeper for
Chicago, via Fostoria aud b. q o. II. r.
Train arriving at Columbus at 1910 q. m runs
daily, and carries through sleeper from Chicago to
Columbus Washington and Baltimoee.
Directconnections madein Union Depoi at Colum :
bus for Newark, GAINESVILLE, Pittsburgh, Wheeling,
Baltimore, Washington and Phadephia; also for
Dayton Cincinnati Louisville and alpoint south
and Southwest.
Ba- Close connections at Toledo for etroitan
al lpointsin Michigan and Canada.
H.J. FALKENBACH,
Gen 'lPassen ge and TicketAgent,
CoLUMBUs, %.
q. R.CARR, General Superintendent.
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The March Wide Awake has for frontispiece
one of Hassam's "wet-d day pictures" entitled
"a Late March Afternoon" Garrett, too,
has some characteristic work both in his
strong drawings for Mrs. Harriet Prescott
Spofford's ballad, "Blind Milton" and his
fanciful sketches for Miss Guiney's "Fairy
Folk AL" W. L. Taylor is represented at
his best by an irresistible little fellow in cap
and ulster, accompanying the poem by Abi-
gail Adams Foster, entitled Gust Seven
;In.t,ate rs nav Mod nSars ser;al A aMorteswnas ngs
q Gold Mines" Merrill's spirited pen-and-ink
sketches depict scenes in Mr.. Talbot's come
dy-serial "Romulus and Remus," and Mrs.
Champney's Indian serial, "Howling Wolf
and his Trick-Pony;' one of Kemble's
Southern pictures illustrates the La Rose
Blanche Story of "The Dish-Rag Bonnet" a
story most pathetic, most humorous; and
Beard has made two or three good drawings
for Q. F. Holders paper on ''The Coral Coun-
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Literary Notes.


IONI lhHAhNh1
Long before Mrs. Stowe began TO arrange
or even perhans to gather materials for the
work by which her name will be forever re-
Numbered Mrs. Horace Mann had written a
tale of West Indian life in which the same
subject, slavery, held the foremost place, as
slavery must whenever and wherever IL
touches human life in fiction or history.
That book is now to be read; and the world
is entitled to know how II came to be written
and then withheld 80 long.
These are the words of the authors yenera-
BILE sister, Miss Elizabeth p. Peabody, ad-
dressed to Mr.. Lothron: -.
"The story is a fiction: but some OF the
characters and some of the most important
incidents ara facts-it was this that maoe
the author keen back the book from publica-
tion till all were dead.
''The last one who died was child or hVe
or siy at the time. He did deed in his later
life that lighted up the tragedy with moral
olory that completed the book as work OF
art-the part that touches on this was lately
"it was the merest accident that the work
was not published before my sisters death,
as she so earnestly desired it should be. for
it delineated some Of the actual observations
she made at the awakening of her mind to
fine great subject which so soon shook the
whole fabric of our society, but which in 1880
was only beginning to agitate us. The
Boston Mob did not take place, think, till
'35 or &C.
"The book was written with no moral
object in view, but, as she used to say, it
wrote itself on her soul, and was transcribed
as a relief" -.z.- ~.
When Mrs. Mann was ready to publish, the
last of the real characters having passed
away, the manuscript could not be found.
It had only been mislaid, however; and after
her death it came to light. -,
"Juanita, a Romance of Real Lifein Cuba, !"
is the title. Pronounced whon-ee-tah.l
The beginning is festive scene in valley
Of peace little inland in Africa. The natives
had heard of, but had never seen, the white
man. The white man was to them SLAYER.
He came with the rattle of firearms, which
were lightning and thunderbolts to the simple
sayages. Death. capture, the ship, the lonely
coast, Havana, the SLAYER himself, his home,
family, visitors--and the tale is begun.
II shall not be told in our poor words. The
book is written (the name of the distinguish
ed author might stand for that with equal
strength Of mind and feeling. A slavery tale
of another country before the time of Uncle
Toms Cabin. The writer the scarcely less
distinguished wife of the man who may be
said in a way to have led New England forty
years ago. The book her only book. To be
published shortly by D. Lothrop Company,
Boston.
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Trains leave Wheeling for st. olairsyille at 100 g.
m, :l5 p. m. and 4a6 p. m. daily except Sunday.
Accommodation leaves GAINESVILLE at $500 o. m.
daily, except Sunday, and arrives at Columbus at
S:O5 a. m, Cincinnati 1920 m. s5
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Administrators Sale of Real Estate.


Florence Cronise, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Napoleon, Ohio, Feb. %, 1887. So 10
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BOYS and Men.

You arc boys now but you will
soon be men. Then you will have
your own way to make IN the world.
Do you mean to be idle and fretful,
and deceive people, and give them q
bad opinion of your Or do you IN.
tend to go to work, and act bravaly
and noAly, and do yonr duty, aad
leave name behind you when you
die which the wosld will love and
respactY Take care--now IS the
timel Did you ever notice large
tree that grew crooked, aud was an
ugly eyesore er that account J! FER
haps it stood on the lawn, right ~
front Of the porch, and your father
would have liked very much to
straightep il. 1t was impossible to
do so. A hundred horses cosld not
have dragged it erect. And YET
think Of the time when the large tree
was a small sapling; child might
have Strengthened it then, and it
would have grown properly; and
every one would have admired it.
BY this / mean that boys grow
straight, not crooked. You are
young now, as the tree was once; be-
gin in time, and you will be straight
as au arrow whom you are man. II
you wait, it will be too late, The
way to make men erect and noble, is
to take them when they are boys and
show them that there is nothing IN
this world so noble az doing their
duty. Once more say, remember
that though you are boys now, you
You may do good or evil. lfyou
are false and worthless, you and
every body else will have . hard time
of it. You may be soldiers, judges,
statesmen, and presidents. What
you say or do, may decide the fate
of millions Of other people. These
will look to you and more than all,
God will watch you, and hold you to
a strict secount. Ifyou are brave,
and true and unselfsh, Heaven will
bless you, and every one who knows
you will love and respect you. II
you are mean and cowardly, and
think of nothing but your own pleas
ure, God and man will be displeased
with you. Which will you bet The
best of all things is to be pure and
do your duty. Hi
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The OouIist to the Tenor.

Amateur tenor, lwho bias been
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eye doctor, I understand" Omaha
ocalist--"I am an oculist, sir. " Eyes;
we'll, what I want to know is whether
there is any way to prevent the eyes
from filing with water while singing.
ssNone that know Of except to stee!
your heart against the sufEerings OF
the audience. Omaha World.